tcktcktck — Copenhagen 7 Dec 09 | The World Is Ready

Archbishop Desmond Tutu led a "vigil for survival" Saturday at the COP15 Copenhagen climate talks, highlighting the necessity for world leaders to reach a fair, ambitious and binding treaty to protect the world’s poor from climate change and propagate a clean energy future.

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This afternoon in Barcelona, TckTckTck Campaign Director Ben Margolis presented U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer with one of the 1,000 ringing alarm clocks used to wake up negotiators from around the world as they arrived on Monday to continue climate negotiations leading up to Copenhagen.

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Groggy delegates and observers arriving today in Barcelona for the final round of negotiations prior to Copenhagen were welcomed by TckTckTck’s cacophony of 1,000 ringing alarm clocks piercing the morning air in front of the Fira Gran Via conference hall.

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